TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest 27: Civil Rights Implications of the Allocation of Funds between Bus and Rail examines complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the Federal Transit Administration. The report also explores the number of Title VI challenges, the nature of transit agencies' responses to these challenges, U.S. Supreme Court decisions associated with Section 602 disparateimpact violations, intentional discrimination claims, immunity, and more.
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